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Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech (www.wired.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So they identified as men, and the event allowed the men to come? Then I'm failing to see what the issue is?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is, the event's not allowed to discriminate officially. The article is about lamenting the ability to discriminate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm sure so many people right now have that shit eating grin, especially after reading

The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US.

[–] Fedizen 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the article quotes a bunch of people frustrated at pushing, shoving, line cutting etc at the job fair portion that weren't visiting presentations - basically people who didn't want to listen to the speeches but wanted to throw out resumes, fuck everyone else.

IMO they could solve the problem with a stamp system for people who sat through a presentation but its kind of shitty to have to treat everyone like kids because a couple dudes can't behave themselves.